At dusk, the small kitchen of the hibiscus courtyard prepared the meal early, stir-fried white melon, boiled crab roe, fairy duck, fish-flavored eggplant cake and a red wolfberry live fish soup.Murong Jin didn't have much appetite, so he reluctantly ate a small half bowl of rice: "Let's withdraw it.""
Miss didn't eat much all day, but the cook didn't do it to her heart's content?
Do you want to change the chef again in the unknown day?
”Cai Shi asked with concern.Although the rest of the master is given to them and the maids and mothers-in-law to eat in the end, the more leftovers, the more each of them will naturally get more, and their hearts are naturally happy.But you also have to pay attention to the master's body, if the master is hungry and thin, they will definitely be accused of taking care of them when they turn around."
No need, you can go down and eat separately."
Murong Jin gave an order and washed up and rested early.Just lying on the bed, but she couldn't sleep well, and at night she heard the sound of rain outside, and she was even more irritable when she listened, and finally she didn't feel sleepy.She sat up, lifted the quilt, stepped on the satin shoes with auspicious cloud patterns, got out of bed, walked to the window and pushed it open.The wind carried by the night rain was a little cold, and she couldn't help but clench her arms, but refused to close the window.Looking at the hibiscus courtyard under the rain curtain outside the window, every place was so familiar, it made her feel a little unreal, and she kept thinking about things in her head.Honeysuckle, who was keeping vigil, woke up when he heard the sound of the window opening, and when he crossed the screen, he saw Murong Jin standing in front of the window blowing the cold wind, and he couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly found a cloak.Honeysuckle asked cautiously, "Miss can't sleep?"
The rainy night is cold, and the young lady beware of catching a cold.Mother Xu came back and knew that Miss didn't eat much for dinner, so she asked the small kitchen to make yam and tofu porridge to warm it, Miss would like to drink some?
”Murong Jin thought about her own affairs and ignored her.Honeysuckle didn't dare to speak anymore, she was actually a little apprehensive, in the past, the young lady would always lose her temper when she woke up at night, and even punished the maid who kept vigil, it was because the maids in the Hibiscus Courtyard were not very willing to keep vigil, but fortunately, Murong Jin didn't sleep well many times.Honeysuckle was afraid that something bad would make Miss unhappy, so he was punished to kneel outside, so he honestly stood behind Murong Jin.After a long time, Murong Jin turned around and asked, "You said that Mother Xu came back and asked the small kitchen to make porridge?""
Yes, Miss would like to eat some?"
Honeysuckle thought for a while and said, "Mother Xu goes out for an hour on the night of the first and fifteenth days of the first month of the month.""
Got it, go get a bowl, I'm a little hungry too."
Honeysuckle was instructed to go down.Murong Jin closed the window and sat on the big kang in the Xinuan Pavilion, thinking about the past.What she has been unable to figure out is Mother Xu.is obviously good at martial arts, but she came to be a housekeeper mother for her, and she didn't have anything to say on weekdays, but before she got married in her previous life, she asked her how to do it right.She didn't know who the master Xu's mother was talking about, but it was definitely not her.Because when it comes to the word master, Mother Xu's eyes are full of reverence, which is different from the kind of respect with alienation towards herself.It's just that since then, Xu's mother has left Anguo Mansion, and later when she saw that she moved to the small Buddha Hall, Xu's mother never spoke to her, but has been silently taking care of her.Murong Jin thought of the person who rushed into the small Buddha hall when he was poisoned, could it be that the master in Mother Xu's mouth was that person?
But what is the purpose of arranging people to be by his side?
She found that there were many things in her previous life, and she couldn't figure out why.The second prince crossed the river and demolished the bridge to kill her father and brother, Feng Yanting threw her aside after using her, but why did Wang Xiyan kill her mother and aunt?
They're just a woman, so what else can they threaten?
If the eldest aunt is the only female marquis since the past dynasties, she is quite influential in the army, and the younger aunt has a prince, and there is a reason why they are regarded as a threat.But my mother has been away from the world for a long time, but she is just a woman in the house, why was she murdered?
Murong Jin found that she still needed to know a lot of things, and she must not be able to guard a place as big as the inner courtyard of the mansion as before.She has a lot to do, no matter what, she has to protect the Anguo Mansion and the Zhennan Hou Mansion.But right now, the first thing she needs to do is to clean up the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods in the hibiscus courtyard.Only when the rear is strong can she deal with the enemy with peace of mind.When Honeysuckle came in with yam and tofu porridge, he was still very worried in his heart, for fear that he would be sent out if he didn't do something well.Although she is just a second-class maid who is not noticed by her master, she is fortunate to live a stable life, and she has a lot of silver per month.But if you are sent out, you can do some rough work, and if you are sent to that place, there is only a dead end.When she was holding the porridge, her hands were a little slippery, and her expression was nervous and uneasy, Murong Jin looked at her very funny, but she didn't expect her bad image to scare this little girl like this.She couldn't help but shake her head, she used to think that as long as she deterred the people below, she was not afraid of anyone who dared to betray her, so her gentleness was only outside, and she was extremely strict with the people in the Hibiscus Courtyard.But I forgot that rabbits are in a hurry to bite, let alone people.So much so that in the previous life, except for a woman with a fragrance and a mother Xu who was appointed by others, although she did not sell her master for glory like Cai Shi, she also watched coldly after she fell and left.is unpopular to such an extent, it can be seen that she is a failure."
You don't need to wait for this, it's not too early, you don't need to stay here, go down and rest for a while."
Murong Jin drank a small half bowl of porridge and ordered Honeysuckle to go down."
Yes."
Although Honeysuckle felt that it was inappropriate for the young lady to have no one around to serve her, she didn't dare to say anything, so she answered and went down.Murong Jin picked up the travelogue on the kang and read it, and felt bored after turning a few pages.In her previous life in the small Buddha Hall, in order to pass the time, in addition to copying Buddhist scriptures, she just read some miscellaneous books, at that time her dowry was all taken away, but those books were tattered, Gu Ruyan didn't look at it, but felt that it occupied a place, so she asked people to send it to her.But I didn't know that many of those books were ancient books, not only those she brought out from the Anguo Mansion at the beginning, but also the little by little collected in the Dong'an Hou Mansion over the years, many of which were hard to find.There are one or two books, which are enough for ordinary people to be rich for a lifetime, but unfortunately she was disheartened at that time, she just lived numbly, and she didn't sell books, but read them one by one.This travelogue is what she read at that time.Murong Jin sat for a while, still not sleepy, thinking that the sky was about to dawn, so he simply lit another lamp and went to Dongnuan Pavilion to find a medical book and sit down and watch.When Gu Ruyan died in her previous life, she said that the drunken beauty was not incomprehensible, although her words were good when she was about to die, but she always had to re-verify it before she could feel at ease.Although it is very likely that you will not encounter this kind of poison again in this life, it always does not hurt to know more.What's more, Gu Ruyan could make the poison of a drunken beauty in his previous life, and he is not impossible to taste it in this life.No, it will!
Perhaps, Gu Ruyan has already preliminarily developed a drunken beauty now.Murong Jin suddenly remembered an incident that happened in the palace back then.In the seventh year of Hongwu, Concubine Jing, who was favored by her, suddenly got a strange disease, and many blood-red patterns were born on her body, and she was not good for a long time.She hadn't seen what the blood-red pattern looked like, but she had heard it describe that it was very similar to the symptoms of the drunken beauty's poison when it had just flinched and the dosage was not much.Murong Jin thought about what happened at the beginning, at that time, Gu Ruyan had just entered the palace, and life was not going well, but then he began to go smoothly, and he was promoted all the way to the position of the chief medicine.If there is no one behind this, it is impossible to make a decision.But although she asked her little aunt to take care of her more, it was impossible for her to have such a big impact.The only explanation is that Gu Ruyan has a new backer!
And the price of being able to climb this backer is to poison and murder Concubine Jing to make her lose her favor and even lose her life.So who will this backer be?
Murong Jin recalled the time when this incident happened, at the chrysanthemum banquet a month later, I don't know if she could find out the person behind Gu Ru's smoke.At the end of the day, the sound of the rain outside stopped, but the sky was still gray and gloomy, but the sound of the maids and women could be faintly heard.Murong Jin put down the medical book in her hand and went back to the inner room, she couldn't configure a drunken beauty now, just flipping through the book, it was difficult to confirm whether the medicine was really effective for a while.After a while, Cai Shi came in with the mountain dates and the mountain gardenia with the washing things, picked up the curtain, stood through the screen, and asked softly, "Miss, are you awake?"
Murong Jin hummed lightly, and Cai Shi took the mountain dates to pick up the curtain and clean up the bed, while Shan Yu waited for Murong Jin to wash."
What kind of hairstyle do you want to comb today?"
Cai Shi waited for Murong Jin to sit down in front of the dressing table, and then came over to help her straighten her hair."
An ingot, a hairpin, a hibiscus flower is good."
Murong Jin has been in the small Buddha hall for seven years, and he doesn't have much feeling for these external things, but he still has to go to the room to ask for peace today, and he can't be too plain.After thinking about it, he said: "I am wearing a pair of tired silk white jade steps, and two pearl hairpins.""
Yes."
Cai Shi answered, quickly combed it, put on the headdress, and the mountain date was holding a lotus root pink long jacket skirt, Murong Jin frowned a little.If she was still twelve or thirteen years old, it would be nothing to wear this pink color, but now that she counts, she is in her thirties, and she feels awkward to let her wear this color out."
Change into a royal blue jacket with a moon-white horse-faced skirt."
Seeing that Murong Jin was not very satisfied, Shan Zao's heart was in his throat, and after receiving the order, he hurriedly went to find it.After Murong Jin chose the earrings of mutton fat and jade water drops and put them on, Shan Zao held his clothes and knelt down with a panicked face: "Miss forgive me, the slave didn't find the royal blue one, can you look at this water blue one."
Murong Jin was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that she used to prefer light-colored clothes, where did she find this girl.raised his hand to let the mountain date get up, and said that it was okay, but he thought in his heart that the atmosphere of the hibiscus courtyard should also be changed, otherwise this kneeling at every turn is just in the inner courtyard, if it goes out, it will be like this, and others can still think of themselves as how harsh the master is, which is not conducive to her subduing people's hearts.Murong Jin walked to Xinuan Pavilion and sat down, and Mother Xu took Su Ye and Su Mu to set up breakfast, crystal shrimp dumplings, kidney bean porridge, stir-fried assorted and two refreshing side dishes.She ate two shrimp dumplings, drank a small half bowl of porridge, and felt that Mother Xu was still standing on the side, and raised her head to look at her: "Mom, what else is going on?"
Mother Xu wore a dark long armor, her hair was neatly combed, only fixed with a root silver hairpin, and she wore a pair of golden beans on her ears.After Xu's mother saluted and said hello, she said: "A jewelry shop in Madame's dowry, there is too much deficit this month, I don't know what Miss plans to do."
Murong Jin remembered that after she returned from the military camp, her brother handed over all her mother's dowry to her.At the beginning, it was okay, probably because my brother's residual power was still there, and those shops and granges had a good monthly income, at least they had a surplus.But since half a year ago, some shops began to have a deficit, and at that time she was obsessed with studying medicine, and she didn't pay much attention to it.In addition, Gu Ruyan has always told her that it is not easy to run a shop, she has so many private houses, and she will not be short of those few dollars, so why bother to manage things, she has not pursued it.Who knew that with this connivance, the deficit of those shops turned out to be more and more.Although Murong Jin's maternal grandfather has the title of Marquis of Zhennan, very few people become officials, but they mainly do learning and business, and the Qifang Academy, one of the three major academies, was opened by the ancestor of the Marquis of Zhennan.My grandmother would send her a lot of things every month, and my father and brother would always send them to her hospital first whenever they had any good things.My brother has spoiled her since she was a child, even if her requirements are excessive, my brother will try his best to meet them, even when she grows up, so every time she comes back, she has to collect some good things for her.My father felt that he owed his mother, so he made up for it in her, but the mistakes in this world can be easily made up.It's just that she hasn't been clear why her father had such a thing with Xiao Ruan, she can feel that her father's affection for her mother is very deep, and it is not comparable to Xiao Ruan's at all.And Xiao Ruan's feelings for her father are only faint, she remembers the tragic death of her father and brother in her previous life, Xiao Ruan's did not feel sad at all, but a little relaxed.Perhaps, what is the secret in this?
Murong Jin smiled when she thought about it, what did she worry about the adult's affairs, so she didn't think about it.What she had to think about now was the savings in her hand, and according to what she received at that time, her belongings should be very expensive."
Speaking of which, I haven't asked about the shops for a long time, these shops were in my brother's hands, but they made a lot of profits every month, why did they lose money one after another when they came to me?"
Murong Jin asked, but didn't wait for Mother Xu's answer, so she continued on her own: "If others don't know, they have to say that my life is not good, and I specialize in making money."
Maybe in the future, I will become a mourning star, so who else would dare to marry me?
”Her words are not alarmist, but this is really the case, it happened in the previous life, and many people in the mansion said that her life was not good, she was a disaster, and if she was in charge of money, I was afraid that she would lose the entire Anguo Mansion.Although it was just a fictitious thing, the old lady believed in these things very much, and at that time she asked people to take over her mother's dowry, and even took away a lot of her private room, only saying that it was to help her keep it, and then return it to her after she got married.Later, she married Feng Yanting, and the dowry was returned, but there was only an empty shell left, and as for those private houses, most of them were missing.It was also because she didn't register the things in her private room one by one at that time, which made people take advantage of the loopholes.Thinking of this, Murong Jin asked Cai Shi and asked, "I remember that last month, my grandmother asked her to send a set of red coral heads, plus two pairs of bracelets of old pit jade, but the registration has passed?"
I probably haven't seen what's in my private vault for a long time. ”This means that you have to look at the register in the hospital.Mother Xu glanced at Murong Jin, and always felt that today's young lady was not the same as usual, but in the past, she was impatient when she listened to this, where would she take the initiative to say check?
Looking at Cai Shi's uneasy appearance again, I understood a little in my heart, I was afraid that the young lady had found something, so she asked this question.Murong Jin's shop was taken care of by Mother Xu, and the other things in her yard should have been taken care of by Mother Xu, but because she was partial to picking poems at the beginning, she handed over the matter of registering and taking care of the yard to her.Originally, she only thought that the things in the yard were lost after being taken away by the old lady, but now looking at Cai Shi, I am afraid that the things in her hands have already been tampered with."
Is it difficult, I can't see it?"
Murong Jin asked lightly, but his tone was unprecedentedly stern, and the maids in the room knelt down in panic, for fear that one would accidentally become a pond fish that was affected.Murong Jin didn't want to be angry with anyone, once her life in the small Buddha hall was worse than her subordinates, where would she be angry for no reason, so she softened her tone and said, "Get up, and don't do your business." ”A few maids, you look at me, I look at you, and finally stood up hesitantly, but Cai Shi didn't have the courage, and kept thinking of ways to deal with it.Then I thought that there are so many things in the lady's warehouse, I am afraid that I will not be able to remember much clearly after a long time, so it is better to admit my negligence, I have not sorted it out for a long time, and with the young lady's love for her, I should not be too harsh on her.Cai Shi kowtowed, and said in a calm tone: "Please punish the young lady, it is the slave who is lazy and negligent in registering." ”Murong Jin looked at her and said with a smile: "I left the affairs in the yard to you to take care of, I thought you were more stable, but I forgot to hand over so many things to you, but I couldn't keep you busy, I didn't think about it." ”"Slaves don't dare."
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Cai Shi hurriedly said."
But it's just that I forgot to tidy it up, and it's not a big deal, so could I lose something?
I opened the warehouse today to tidy up, but don't forget it in the future. ”Murong Jin didn't get angry, she didn't want to startle the snake yet, and it was not too late to find out the master behind her, and then her father would have an explanation, otherwise she might become her mean subordinate again.Cai Shi breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, thinking that Miss really still hurt herself, and after answering yes, she was ready to retreat to tidy up the warehouse.Murong Jin thought for a while, then called out to Cai Shi and said, "Jiangxiang should also come back, she and you are both big girls, and in the future, the two of you will manage the treasury of the Hibiscus Courtyard together, and you won't be too tired." ”After speaking, he didn't give Cai Shi time to react, so he ordered her to go down and began to talk to Xu's mother: "There is a reason why the shop is empty, I haven't been to the shop since I took over, and it was only at the beginning, my brother let those stewards visit once, and now I don't have much impression of those stewards, you let them all come to see me the day after tomorrow, I can re-identify people, as for the deficit of the shop, I want to say it to my face I am easier to understand." ”Although Murong Jin said it tactfully, Mother Xu knew that Miss was going to start taking care of some people.I was a little happy in my heart, and I was very relieved, and I was busy.The order was almost the same, and Murong Jin saw that the time was not too early, so he got up and went to the old lady's Yannian Courtyard to ask for peace.Hibiscus Courtyard is located in the southeast corner of Anguo Gong, some distance from Yeonen-in.Speaking of which, as the concubine of the Guogong Mansion, Murong Jin was supposed to live in the Splendid Garden in the main courtyard, but two years ago, the Splendid Garden caught fire, not only burned many things, but also killed a little maid, she felt unlucky in her heart, and refused to live in anything.But there was only one courtyard where the concubine lived, and she naturally didn't want to live in the concubine's small courtyard at that time, so she had the idea of rebuilding a courtyard.Originally, my father disagreed, but she said that if she didn't build a new yard, she wouldn't go to the barracks for training.Naturally, my father would not compromise so much, but was furious and wanted to use the family law.It was the eldest aunt who persuaded her to reluctantly agree, but she was not allowed to take money from the public, and her brother managed his mother's dowry well, and gave her a lot of silver, and she sold some private houses, which led to the hibiscus courtyard.The hibiscus courtyard spent a full 60,000 taels of silver, repaired the exquisite luxury, pavilions, pavilions, Xuanxie courtyard are all lacking, and also built a small garden, there is a pond inside, a covered bridge is built on it, many varieties of lotus water lilies are planted in the pond, and a lot of precious redtail fish are put in.There are many rockery stone carvings in the garden, as well as two century-old trees transplanted from the deep mountains, plus a medicine garden and flower room.The medicine garden was changed from the original small courtyard, and at that time she was not interested in studying medicine, and she suddenly liked it after going to the military camp for half a year, so she changed it to a medicine garden.As for the flowers in the garden, there are naturally many kinds of flowers, and there are flowers to enjoy all year round.Later, when her father found out about the cost, he reprimanded both the brother and sister, but ransomed all the money she had sold with his own private money, and asked her brother to send it to her.But these were only known until a long time later in her previous life, so that she resented her for a long time because her father did not agree with her marriage to Feng Yanting, and finally in order to marry her sweetheart, she practiced her dancing skills hard and won the championship at the Qionghua Banquet in one fell swoop.At that time, where did she know the stakes above the court, where did she know the rise and fall of the family, she only thought about Feng Yanting, and in order to marry him, she could ignore anything.At that time, she was also stupid.Walking all the way, thinking about it, he arrived at Yannian Courtyard, Murong Jin got rid of those memories, sorted out his emotions, and stepped in.Yannian Temple is also exquisitely repaired, the brick carved wall, the pavement of blue bricks, dozens of green bamboos are planted on both sides, there is living water flowing through the courtyard, a small bridge is built on it, after crossing the bridge, you can walk a section to the hall house, and you can see the main house through the hall house.Before Murong Jin arrived at the front of the house, he could already hear the cheerful laughter inside."
Grandmother, you promised your granddaughter that today you can take the maid and mother-in-law to choose Cui Pavilion to see the jewelry, but you can't coax people to ......
"Choose Cui Pavilion, the largest jewelry shop in the capital."
There is no noblewoman in the family who doesn't like the jewelry inside, just because she chooses the jewelry of Cui Ge, and there is only one piece of each one.Who doesn't want all of them to be unique?
After Murong Jin picked up the curtain and went in, he walked a few steps and crossed the four screens of Su embroidery in Songhe Yannian and saw the old lady, wearing an agarwood-colored five-bat longevity gown, and a pleated skirt of the same color, which was decorated with pine branches embroidered with gold thread, her hair was neatly combed, and she was wearing two wishful treasure red golden hairpins, sitting on the kang.There was also Murong Xuan sitting beside him, wearing a light crimson jacket with carved silk silver thread butterflies and flowers, a moon-white horse-faced skirt, a gold silk bun inlaid with white jade, a fan earring of red jade on his ears, and a string of emerald sheep fat jade on his neck.Dai Mei is beautiful, her apricot eyes are round, there is a smile on the corner of her mouth, and she can faintly see the shallow dimples, talking with the old lady.Murong Lin was wearing a long jacket skirt with a begonia pattern of the same color, and the second lady Murong Ling, the fourth lady, who was wearing a gold and silver thread embroidered jade rabbit moon worship cloud brocade jacket and a young bud yellow horse face skirt, sat on the embroidered stool at the bottom.Murong Yu, who wore a long aqua blue dress and a jacket of the same pigment, stood behind the two of them, his eyes timid.Murong Jin quickly glanced at her and saluted, the old lady responded lightly, and asked someone to bring the embroidery stool over, Murong Jin sat down generously, but the old lady looked at her twice more and said, "Sister Jin looks much more stable than before." ”()